Top 150 Travel Blogs 2016

I’m proud to say that this is the most comprehensive and up-to-date list of travel blogs anywhere in the world today!

As North America and Europe head into Summer, and Australia and New Zealand head into Winter, it’s a fantastic time to explore opportunities for travel. What better way of doing this then to bring you the absolute best travel blogs currently online… in fact, we bring you the Top 150!

There is so much useful information here. The key to all this information is being able to quickly find the blogs that resonate with you and have information and advice on places that you desire to go to (or didn’t even know you desired to go to!).

The Best Travel Blogs for 2016

Many of these bloggers set out with the intention to simply keep a diary of their travels online and to share their experiences with those interested. Some of these bloggers are now full-time travelers and their blog is their primary source of income. Amazing right? After sifting through all of these travel blogs, I can say that I am greatly impressed with everyone’s work!

It is somewhat tricky putting together a list of the Top 150 travel blogs as it can be rather subjective in nature. To avoid this, I’ve removed any of my own opinions or judgments and let pure metrics do the talking.

What I have created is a list of travel blogs that rank from the most trafficked (largest number of visitors) down to the least trafficked. This list will provide you with a clear indication of how large a website is and its relative importance in the travel blogosphere. Keep in mind, even though the blogs towards the bottom are the ‘least trafficked’, they are still within the Top 150 out of hundreds and thousands of travel blogs out there on the internet (if not more!).

One thing to keep in mind, however, is that a larger site (a site ranked towards the top) does not necessarily indicate that the site is of better quality. Generally speaking, you will find that the larger sites have been around for longer and have more blog posts and content being crawled by Google. Because of this, they are sure to have larger audiences. In saying that, however, the top sites have lasted the test of time and continue to have strong readership so they must be doing something right!

One thing to add, there have been numerous other top travel blog lists over the last couple of years. Never before has a list been this comprehensive and never before has it been shared with a personal development audience.

How to Use This List

This is YOUR LIST.

If you are currently travelling or you are thinking about taking a holiday somewhere, then this is a resource that I encourage you to save and come back to on a regular basis.

Most places in this world have been explored before and it’s easy to follow the beaten path. However, many of the bloggers on this list have had incredible experiences in places I never knew existed. There are so many secrets to the world among this list of blogs… I encourage you to explore destinations and activities that you have never even thought of before (or never even thought possible that there were such places on Earth).

As you travel around or when you’re planning your next adventure, I encourage you to come back to this list and find the hidden gems of destinations, places and activities that these bloggers have exposed for you.

Each travel blog is unique and has its own style and purpose. You will also find that you will resonate strongly with some blog owners and their content and perhaps less so with others. For this reason, there is a wide variety of blogs on the list. The one thing in common is that they all are themed around travel.

My recommendation to you is to browse through each of the blogs below at least once and then pick out the two or three blogs that really resonate with you and are linked to the destinations you would like to visit or the experiences you would like to have.

Think about the below questions as you sift through each blog:

Which bloggers have traveled to destinations I would like to travel to?

Which bloggers have traveled to the place that I am currently in?

Which bloggers have had the kinds of experiences that I would like to experience?

When you find something you like, be sure to subscribe to their content and stay informed.

How The Top 150 Travel Blogs are Ranked

The Top 150 Travel Blogs are ranked in order from the most-trafficked (largest number of visitors) to the least-trafficked (although the smallest in this case is still a Top 150 Blog!)

I have used the Alexa rank of the website as the primary ranking method. Alexa provides a relative ranking of each website based on the number of visitors it receives. A rank of 100,000 would mean that the site is the 100,000th most visited site on the internet. With the millions and millions of websites on the internet, such a ranking is classified as pretty good! Just so you know, Google’s rank is #1, Facebook is ranked #2 and YouTube is ranked #3. The Top 150 Travel Blogs are ranked by Alexa scores (as of January 2016).

People often question the validity of such tools, however, when comparing more generally the relative size of a website they are quite accurate and very useful indicators. Other tools might indicate that a lower-ranked blog in our Top 150 is infact larger than a higher-ranked blog, but generally speaking, the Top 10 websites will always be larger than those ranked 10-20, and those ranked 10-20 will always be larger than those ranked 20-30 etc. To sum it up, the larger and more trafficked sites will always tend to be ranked higher regardless of the tool being used.

Do you want to get really funky with the Top 150 blogs? I’m pleased to let you know that the Top 150 table is dynamic. This means that you can search for your favourite blog to see where it is ranked and sort by any column, such as page rank or alphabetical order. This is your list. Have fun with it!

Without further ado, let me introduce you to the Best Travel Blogs for 2016!

The Winners

CONGRATULATIONS to every blogger that has made this Top 150 list! I personally give you a high-five and want to say you’re having an impact on others by going off the beaten-track!

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Comments

Thank you for pulling together this fabulous list. There are certainly some new ones for me to discover and I feel honoured to be included.

I was a little surprised to see that Jonny Blair of Don’t Stop Living isn’t on the list, or did I miss him?

Also, interesting to see your inclusion of Google Page Rank when this hasn’t been updated for years. For example, if it had been updated more recently then Where’s Sharon would most definitely be higher than a 1. She has a great blog.

Google page rank is actually officially dead and everyone is ranked at zero right now. That is if we are talking about the Google page rank bar as the real page rank considered by Google is very much alive and well, but there is no way to know it for sure (not that I know of) 🙂

Hey good point, where is Jonny? According to Alexa he is at 174,133 but maybe DSL was missed because it’s .net

Didn’t realize that about GPR though, especially because so many clients still ask about it. Also worth noting that Alexa ranks can change overnight when something goes viral. For example, when that drama happened in Indonesia, I broke the 100,000 barrier. And then I stopped writing and went into hiding and yeah…..it didn’t last hahaha

Anyway, cheers Brendan for the comprehensive list. If anyone needs travel inspiration or information, there are no finer cats to ask then the folks here.

Thanks for the inclusion, but Alexa has become a joke (it doesn’t track mobile traffic for a start, which is now half or more of most sites’ traffic).

This is patently false now:

“the larger and more trafficked sites will always tend to be ranked higher regardless of the tool being used.”

I have one site getting 10,000 visitors a month and it ranks waaayyy above another one of mine that gets close to 30,000 page views a month. Clearly more people with the Alexa toolbar installed are visiting the former. Even on this one blog my traffic can rise or fall by 20,000 page views a month but Alexa ranking doesn’t budge. You see this play out across the sites in this list too if you compare it to the top-50 list at The Expeditioner, which is based on the real metric of unique monthly visitors.

Hi Brendan: Thanks so much for including me (Hole in the Donut Cultural Travel). Of course, there is no perfect ranking criteria – each has its ups and downs – but I appreciate the work you put into this and it looks like a great list.

Appreciate the time you spent putting this together Brendan, it would have taken a tremendous amount of time. We’d love to be included if you ever revise it. http://thetrustedtraveller.com and think we’d fall around the 130 mark. Cheers

I’m with Rachel: followsummer.net is ranked 681,886 globally according to Alexa: we would have placed at the 135th poll postion: But as Tom pointed out as well…visits and ranking vary depending on who you are using at any given day, month or minute. But thanks for this list! I follow and chat with many of them! #TravelWell!

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Awesome list of travel blogs. I like to travel new places. I want to know more about other people and other countries. Travel blogs provide us many information and guidelines about traveling. Thanks for sharing this excellent article.

Please consider our blog. We get a lot of traffic in the United States especially. Our Alexa rank is low enough for our blog to be included in the list. Thanks for putting together an excellent resource. Nomadic Matt is the best travel blog out there in my opinion. He’s also been around the longest.